Member Since: 11/9/2005
Band Website: durtro.com
Band Members: David Tibet and, appearing in and as and to and for Current 93 on the last and next albums: Michael Cashmore, Ben Chasny, Steven Stapleton, Little Annie, Baby Dee, Andrew WK, Matt Sweeney, William Breeze, John Contreras, Al Cisneros, Joolie Wood, Maja Elliott, Mark Logan, Clodagh Simonds, Marc Almond, Antony, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Shirley Collins, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Stephen Emmell, Rickie Lee Jones, Maniac, Ernesto Tomasini, Sebastian Horsley, Andria Degens, William Basinski, Keith Wood, Amy Phillips and 93 other faces.
Influences: JESUS CHRIST, The Bible, The Gospel of Thomas, everything in COPTIC, Koiné Greek, the Jesus Prayer, the Desert Fathers, Beauty pouring out, the clouds scudding by, Sir Thomas Browne, Seahorses, Kierkegaard, Jewish mysticism, the Mother Mary and Jesus and Christ and GOD, Cats, Saint Louis Wain, Roman Catholicism, JUDAS PRIEST, John Coltrane, ROB HALFORD, Russian Orthodox Christianity, Birger Pearson,The New Creation, Walter Ewing Crum, Baby Huey, Sylvester, David Hall, BONNIE TYLER, The Monophysites, Shooting BLACK SHIPS out of the SKY with children's voices, Blessed John Bradburne, Cyndi Lauper, CS Lewis, Thomas Ligotti, The Temptations, John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Queen (the group), Queen (The Queen), JRR Tolkein, "RIPPER" OWENS, John Phillips, Mike & Jan & Tamlin Magee, Roy Buchanan, organic lemons, Mark Fry who Dreams with Alice, Angel Witch, His Holiness Chi.med Rig.'dzin Lama Rinpoche, AE Housman, Edward Alexander, Geoff Cox-Dorée, Jackson Browne, Sri Subramaniam (Murugan) and his brother Vinayagar, Alice Cooper, John Milton, Brett Easton Ellis, Anne Boud'hours, Ten Years After, Isaac Hayes, Withfinder General, Marvin Gaye, Dante, Joni Mitchell, David Lindsay, Mani, Rickie Lee Jones, Gene Clark, David Crosby, Silmaril, Albert Ayler, David Surkamp, Pavlov's Dog, Carly Simon, Judee Sill, Face of Grace, To Mega Therion, The New Creation, Edmund Monsiel, Silberbart, St. Paul, Clea Duvall and Reese Witherspoon, Jethro Tull, Mithtras, PinkFaceDeathFace, Henry Boxer, The Eagles, Michel Houellebecq, Count Stenbock, RH Benson, The Eagles, Blood Ceremony, Joanna Newsom, Killer Flower Coil, Ben Chasny, Budgie, King Crimson, Sunn O))), Patripassianism, Cream and Eric Clapton, Public Foot the Roman, Mountain, Attila Csihar, Zoolander, Curved Air, Evelyn Waugh, Celtic Frost, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Steven Stapleton, Shirley Collins, Mark Logan, Timothy d'Arch Smith, Shenoute and Shenouda, Ornette Coleman, Six Organs of Admittance, Grrr and Warrr, Michael Cashmore, Joni Mitchell, Astanga Yoga, Rush, Dr Stephen Emmel, Dr Barbara Emmel, Dr Bentley Layton, Dr Lance Eccles, Dr Heike Behlmer, Dr James Goehring, Dr Sebastian Richter, Dr. Anne Boud'hors, Dr David Frankfurter, Dr David Brakke, Hugo Lundhaug, Christ Reintges, Jenny Cromwell, Neil Young, Nikolai Obouhov, Alexander Scriabin, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Hymenæus Beta, Bill Fay, COLTRANE ALICE AND JOHN AMEN, Hamish Hendry and Anna Wise, Santana, Hush Arbors, Marc Almond, the Coptic language, Alexei Stanchincky, Jobriath, Aleister Crowley, Larsen, (r), Marc Bolan & Tyrannosaurus Rex and T. Rex, Pink Fairies, Dennis Wheatley, William Breeze, Keith Richmond, Tamil, Malaysia, Graham Bond RIP, The ETERNAL Jhonn Balance, Plainchant, Soeur Marie Keyrouz, Hammer horror films, tortoises and turtles, Biblical Prophecy, Ivan Panin, Freddy Mercury & Queen, Pictures Of Billy, Nurse With Wound, Baby Dee, the Bee Gees, Jackson Browne, the signs in the stars, the Rapture, Aquaman, Dr Strange, Andrew WK, the Silver Surfer, the Pop Group and Mark Stewart, all organic foods, apocalypses, Martin Stone, Tibetan rNying.ma texts, slugs, trees and forests, my father and mother, moths, Batu Ferringhi, Ronnie Spector, organic pretzels, Hawkwind, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, ELP (Emerson, Lake and Palmer), The Nice, Wishbone Ash, Blue Öyster Cult, Montserrat Figueras, deep-sea fish, moonstones and opals and jade and lapis lazuli, Diamanda Galás, Simeon Solomon, Yes, Don Bradshaw-Leather, Om (Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, as was), Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, nasi lemak, Judas Priest, hypnagoguic imagery, Patripassianism, Colour Me Rubber, Ramases and Ram & Sel and Ram & Seleka and Ram & Selket, Pascal's "Pensées", Dostoyevsky, pasta with garlic and olives, the Small Faces, Fatima, the Crack of the World, Vulvaic Song, Matrix and Matrices, Noddy and Gnoddy, fairy tales, playground chants, Russian Chant, Komitas, GladHead, Comus, Sally Vickers, Rudolf Steiner, Mary Baker Eddy, The Seven Trumpets, FaceHa!Lake, Lynn Jackson, The Trees Community, Pearls Before Swine. Trees, howling, Muldrun Leafen, SevenFace, Alan Judd's "The Devil's Own Work", Liber OZ, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Narnia Books, Aeolian Harps, Anne Briggs, Black Sabbath, Peachface, the Emperor's New Clothes, MR James, the Latin Mass, Malachi Martin's books, the Groundhogs, Leafhound, constellations in all dimensions, organic (green and jasmine and breakfast) tea, Death Vessel, Schwester Benedicta Wallace OSB, Genesis, Julian of Norwich, Marc Almond, Egypt, England, Blue Cheer, the SEA, Moon Jellyfish, ferns and lichens and moss, Venom, Marcel Pérès & Organum, The Wizard of Oz, Electric Wizard, Sebastian Horsley, Simon Finn, Curse The Purse Nurse, William Basinski, Stephen O'Malley, Tom Rapp, King Crimson, Eno, Klaus Nomi, Jobriath, Sir Thomas Urquhart, Humble Pie, Amanda M. Ros, all the CATS in the WORLD and in HEAVEN, Sandy Posey, organic shortbread biscuits, Al Stewart, Cardinal Newman, Looney Tunes cartoons, Cripple Sound, Grendel, Polar Sodom, early Gospel/guitar evangelists, Crass, Nick Blinko and Rudimentary Peni, Cran, Sister Benedicta, Cheers For Fears, Young Frug, Peter Frampton, Starlight Vocal Band, Blind Willie Johnson, AC and Blind Mamie Forehand, Am I LambLand?, Shibboleths, My Beloved Wife Dri, The Wandering Jew, Washington Phillips, Sacred Harp singing, Led Zeppelin, massed guitar charge, Arthur Doyle, Charlie Patton, William Lawes, John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany", Gilgamesh's teleological thought-strokes, Nabokov, St. Eustace, St. Rita, Angels and Archangels, The Cloud of Unknowing, High Tide, walnuts, DogTired DogTide, FaceTheFloodBud, FurThurLayThur, the women of Naqqada, "The Exorcist" film, Tapestry, Tod Wodicka, Claire Wigfall, Michel Faber, Sebastian Horsley, Rockey Palmer and all and AL.
Record Label: Durtro Jnana
Type of Label: Major